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Tuesday, December 02, 2003
Fools and the foolish fools that they fool
Eric Alterman on Ralph Nader:
Ralph Nader, the single individual on the entire planet who could have saved us from the presidency of George W. Bush simply by asking his supporters on election night to do the prudent thing, appears ready to do it again.
This website has been formed the Nadar 2004 Presidential Exploratory Committee, which means Ralph is, at a minimum, flirting with ensuring Bush’s re-election. What was it Scotty used to tell Kirk vis-à-vis the Klingons? “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”
There can be no excuses for any intelligent progressive supporting Nader in 2004 after all we’ve seen from the White House for the past three years. Ignorance? Idealism? I did not put much faith in these arguments in 2000, but now, well, really war, tax cuts, Medicare, Kyoto, abortion.
Remember what Ralph said. “Not a dime’s worth of difference.” If Nader — who could not even bring himself to support Paul Wellstone in Minnesota — wants to further destroy what little remains of his reputation as a progressive leader with this Quixotic race, that’s his prerogative. But let’s be clear. The man is a menace to everything he once professed to represent, which makes him either delusional or hypocritical. I’m not a psychologist, and I don’t really care which explanation holds. Perhaps he’s both. I just hope the only damage he does is to himself, and not, once again, to his country. (via.www.politics1.com)
Whatever good that Ralph Nader did years ago is now gone. Vanished. Zero balance. If he runs again, he goes into the negative.
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